Carsten Trapp
Delft University of Technology, Propulsion and Power, Delft, The Netherlands
Francesco Casella
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Milano, Italy
Teus van der Stelt
Delft University of Technology, Propulsion and Power, Delft, The Netherlands
Piero Colonna
Delft University of Technology, Propulsion and Power, Delft, The Netherlands
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp140961047Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Modelica Conference; March 10-12; 2014; Lund; Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 96:109, p. 1047-1056
This paper presents the development of a system model for a pre-combustion CO2 capture process as part of an integrated gasification combined cycle power plant. This process entails the modelling of highly non-ideal; two-phase multi-component mixtures which are currently not supported by available Modelica media libraries or interfaces.
Therefore; an interface prototype was developed and tested for the modelling and simulation of the CO2 capture process. Limitations concerning the modelling approach and improvements targeting the computational efficiency are discussed. Recommendations about the design of a library for the use of external property estimation code in Modelica conclude the treatment.
Pre-combustion CO2 capture; twophase; multi-component fluids; external fluid property code
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